Does Your Search Bidding Pass the Test? Try Our FREE SEM Analysis

Have you ever done something for years and years thinking your approach was working “fine” or “good enough” only to have a close friend point out that there’s a new and improved way to handle the task? It could be as small as a new calendar app for your phone that is way better than the pre-installed iCalendar, or the joys of Spotify premium over Spotify standard. Well today we want to be that close friend and let you know that the way you’ve been developing your SEM bidding strategy is all wrong; There’s a new and better way!

Some questions probably immediately come to mind:

Keeping up with all the Search Engine releases can be exhausting. For every announcement about expanded text ads and final URLs, Google introduces new ways for optimizing Adwords Accounts.

As a top provider of SEM bidding and delivering performance on Search Engines, [24]7.ai prides itself on staying up to date on all the available levers for improving performance within our client’s accounts. In this analysis, we use our industry expertise to help organizations focus on the main dimensions that we have found to be the low-hanging fruit from an optimization standpoint.

Based on your data, our analysis determines whether there is Revenue or there are Conversions left on the table as well as pinpoint techniques to improve the efficiency of your ad spend. The (free!) analysis right now includes the following checks, but it is constantly evolving and we can evaluate other angles you are interested to learn about your current performance and SEM strategy:

Time of Day: stagnant bids or those that are updated 1-4x/day simply is NOT ENOUGH! We typically see Conversion Rates fluctuating at least +/- 40% throughout the day and the week. A Max CPC that does not adjust and account for the changing value of a keyword when looking at it from the time dimension is very inefficient. We will generate a chart similar to the one below based on your data to showcase just how important frequent updates of bids are.Figure 1. Time Dimension – Evaluate how value over time
changes to achieve maximum conversions.Click on image to view a larger version.

Device: What is your mobile strategy? How do your conversion rates and CPCs vary by device? We can provide detailed analysis on your performance across desktop, mobile, and tablet.Figure 2. Device Dimension – Drill down into
performance and behavior by device.Click on image to view a larger version.

Growth Opportunity: Many of our clients are in a major “growth stage” so we can provide a realistic projection of whether that is possible given where their keywords currently fall within the auction. Sometimes we see keywords already in Pos 1.0 with 99.9% Impression Share, but in many cases there are opportunities to move strong performers up in the auction to deliver additional, efficient volume.Figure 3. Growth Opportunity – A deeper look
at Impression Share and position.Click on image to view a larger version.

User Dimension: Adwords is beginning to provide more and more “modifiable” dimensions that nearly always have interesting patterns for optimization. Age, Gender, Location, and Audience are just a few of the angles that we will look at to see if certain slices of searchers should be targeted more aggressively due to strong intent signals.Figure 4. User Dimension – Measure performance
and behavior by available searcher identity.Click on image to view a larger version.

Keyword Distribution: Long-tail Accounts require a different approach compared to those heavy on Head terms that receive hundreds of clicks per day for the top keywords. We can look into the specifics of your account to better understand the best way to generate predictions for keywords that may have low volume.Figure 5. Keyword Distribution and Longtail – Predict
growth possibilities on longtail keywords
with refined borrowing methods.Click on image to view a larger version.

If any of this sounds interesting and you would like to receive a (free!) Account Analysis, simply head here.... All you will need to provide for the Account Analysis is read-only access to your Adwords Account as well as a few sample reports if your Conversions are stored outside of Adwords. We can have a quick discussion around goals and make sure to customize the report around your business goals, but there is barely any effort on your end!

A logical question you may be asking now is: “Why does [24]7.ai offer this (free!) service? What’s in it for them?” Valid question. We have developed solutions for specifically optimizing each of the analysis angles, so if we uncover opportunities to boost your performance we will give you the option to run a (free!) test to prove out our bidding technology. By running this analysis beforehand, we can ensure that we go into any test with supreme confidence that we can provide an immediate lift to your existing SEM performance. How could you not sign up for this?